30 September 2007

an email that appears to originate in .pl poland, pretends to be from...

My name is Linda Johnson, I am with the US Army and I am serving in the 1st Armoured Division in Iraq. Me and my partner discovered and moved funds belonging to Saddam Hussein.

The total is $25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five million US dollars) this money is being kept safe. Click on this link to read about events that took place here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

Basically since we are working for the American government we cannot keep these funds so we want to transfer the funds to you, so that you can keep it for us in your safe account until after our service.

We will divide the total fund this way, 80% for me and my partner while 15% will be for you and the other 5% will be set aside for any expenses that might be incurred.

This business is should be kept confidential due to the nature of our work and present status.If you are interested send me an e-mail signifying your interest including your private telephone/fax numbers for quick communication.

anything on this header could be forged, except probably, the reply to address. what the header shows as the ip address of the sender: 193.42.231.60 is from gazeta.pl so maybe what these 419 spammers are doing is sending their spam from their own isp email address and through their own isp and using the yahoo email address to collect the replies at...and just maybe the isp can cut them off totally.

we hate to give anything away but you can see how the fraudsters messed up in getting the partner and the soldier names mixed up.see link for related postsEXTERNAL LINK